I have a problem when trying to install ruby 2.0 under Ubuntu 15.04 box
I have add ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng with bellow command:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng
And I get following error ...

I have installed ubuntu-14.0.4 and i am trying to install the g++ compiler by using the command sudo apt-get install g++ after clicking enter some sort of process is running and it ends with an error
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I'm building a debian package compose only of bash/perl script. Those scripts aim to interact with an architecture specific program (amd64) and are completely useless without this program.
On debian ...

I have an Apt mirror on which I want to update only a specific package. I don't need release-level granularity. I want to update the target package for all Ubuntu releases in the mirror.
It would be ...

I can't update-upgrade my ubuntu packages anymore after my latest update/upgrade/dist-upgrade
here are some outputs :
$sudo dpkg --audit
The following packages are in a mess due to serious problems ...

I am trying to make a centralized patch management tool, which can be used to perform the controlled update of all the Ubuntu machines in my network.
I did some research, and collected the following ...

I am using salt-stack to manage servers state(required software/tools/libraries etc). I use specific EC2 images for ubuntu(14.4 x64) instances so I am sure that the os version will not change.
I am ...

I had installed google-chrome and there was a folder named google in /opt.
For some reason I accidentally removed /opt.
Now I have trouble removing google-chrome-stable with apt-get.
Any ideas on how ...

I installed LLVM out of curiousity some time ago, not using it for anything specific. Today I tried removing it with Synaptic, the same way I installed it. The problem is, marking 'removal' on one of ...

I'm having some trouble getting the CUDA development environment up and running on Ubuntu 14.04. I initially tried using the nvidia-cuda-toolkit package from the repository, and although everything ...

I am trying to create a few packages that will replace ones that are existing from the standard Ubuntu repositories. I am currently testing this setup as a local file:/ repo to mimic how it will be ...

I am new to Linux and Ubuntu and I recently got a error that is bothering me. I typed sudo apt-get install -f into the terminal it responds with this
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a ...

I can't open software-center or even apt-get any programs.
When I run the software-center via command I get this error: http://pastebin.com/wwxZe7ma
Can anyone help? Also the steam thing you linked ...

I have created a Java EE program with a WAR-file as a result. To run this file I use the JBoss Wildfly 8 server.
Now I have multiple Ubuntu systems where I want to install the Wildfly server and run ...

I need to add path to my executable application to PATH environment variable. Because I need to add path during .deb package installation, I should use postinst script in debian package. After reading ...

When trying to remove obsolete packages I get the following errors for the grub package. How can I repair this? And what could have been the cause? Note that I tried to remove some java packages in ...

I have a Java app - although the answer here should be the same regardless of whether it is Java, Ruby, Python, etc. - that I would like to distribute in such a way that when devops folk go to install ...

I need to deploy my application which is depend on Qt5.x. No problem with that on 14.04+, but for 12.04 users there is seems to be no way to get qt5 from standard package repository. I'd like to pack ...

We've recently upgraded from 10.04 to 14.04.
We have some held packages, which we upgrade them from time to time. It appears that on 14.04, when you install or upgrade a package it removes the hold ...

I have installed Xubuntu 15.04 - 64 bit on my NUC. So far so good, but
when I try to update the sys things go horribly wrong.
First: apt-get update
This fails for a number of repositories with error ...

I have an old installation of R that I would like to get rid of and replace with a new version. However, apt doesn't see this package at all. It doesn't show up in Synaptic and running sudo apt-get ...